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Newcomers’ Guide HQ JFCBS – 2014JFC 1 JFC www.jfcbs.nato.int We provide: furniture, appliances, kitchenware lighting, linnen, garden furniture > For more info contact Marc Hul [email protected] • tel.+31 (0)35 542 66 95 IL-advert-2013-A4-nl.indd 1 09/04/14 18:38 Joint JFCB / GK Newcomers’ Guide We provide: Foreword by General furniture, appliances, kitchenware lighting, linnen, garden furniture Hans-Lothar Domröse Welcome to Headquarters Allied Joint Force Command 3 Brunssum. This is the first joint Newcomers’ Guide produced in concert with our neighbors at NATO Air Base Geilenkirchen. Within its pages you will find a host of information about the local area and facilities that are available to you at each site. I endorse the guide and hope you find it useful. Having just arrived you will be acclimatizing to your new surroundings but, hopefully, will quickly settle in and start to enjoy the beautiful region of South Limburg. We have always enjoyed excellent relations with the regional community, and I am sure you will find it a pleasure to work and live here for the next couple of years. South Limburg is a region that features many interesting sites and an abundance of varied cultural and sporting activities. Maastricht, the capital of the Province of Limburg, is particularly attractive, with a history that dates back to the time of the Romans. But there are many other cities nearby in Germany, Belgium, and France that You have joined Brunssum at a challenging time. you should try to visit and enjoy. These include Aachen, Our three main tasks are: the International Security Cologne, Düsseldorf, Liège, Gent and Hasselt; even Paris is Assistance Force (ISAF) mission to assist the Government not too far away. Do not hesitate to ask your colleagues of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan; Standby for their personal experiences. Take advantage of the Command for the NATO Response Force; and Regional varied and unique international environment this Focus. As this short piece goes to print it may be that the NATO headquarters offers, and the gateway to Europe it crisis in the Ukraine has come to an end but it is likely provides. a remit for increased situational awareness of that area will remain with us for some time to come. Our work focuses on crisis management. It embraces everything from humanitarian relief to security I wish you and your family an enjoyable and rewarding assistance and military cooperation. We undertake these time in Limburg, and hope that you will also take the tasks as part of the NATO family under the direction of opportunity to establish many new friendships during Allied Command Operations – still commonly known as your time here. Our Headquarters has an important and SHAPE (Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe). prominent role within the NATO Command Structure. We can only maintain this position by achieving our I expect all my staff members to know my Commander’s three ‘Rs’: Reputation, Relevance and Responsiveness. Intent and be familiar with the Brunssum Plan. It is Here I count on your loyal and valuable support. essential you know my priorities and objectives. The principle of Mission Command has my strong backing as Hans-Lothar Domröse > For more info contact Marc Hul it allows a certain freedom of movement but you must General [email protected] • tel.+31 (0)35 542 66 95 ensure your activities are sensitive to the command Commander JFC Brunssum structure in place. IL-advert-2013-A4-nl.indd 1 09/04/14 18:38 WeWe ccANAN AArrrrANANgege everyeveryTThihiNNgg uuNNderder ONONee rrOOOOf!f! SimplySimply arrange arrange your your insurance insurance on on camp. camp. TimeTime is precious!is precious! 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I grew up in these parts, on the border of Treebeek and Hoensbroek, in one of the busiest shopping streets of Simply arrange your insurance on camp. the nineteen seventies: the Akerstraat-Noord. For a little boy of 10 that was an exciting environment where many worlds met. I remember especially the sturdy miners, on their way to the Emma coal pit, and the Afcent military Time is precious! Therefore you can effectively arrange your insurance by visiting us on camp. personnel, driving by in their huge American cars. Also in case of a claim you can see us in the office and we, Meeùs, will take care of it. To a little boy those were unknown worlds which I could The advantages only dream and fantasize about from a respectable Discounted rates on your insurance; distance. As a Mayor, I now want more. I want to build When the NATO headquarters was settled here almost We speak English, German and Dutch; bridges between these ‘unknown’ worlds, so that we may fifty years ago, it was at first a guest who was still a little Everything can be arranged online, by telephone or face to face. further deepen our relationship and better serve our ill at ease. In the meantime, many generations later, we Insurance can be cancelled on a monthly base. mutual interests. got closely interwoven with one another. Economically, yes, but also culturally. We share so much, not only More info? The JFC community holds a special place in Brunssum. the same town, but also the same values and dreams. You can call us Monday to Friday 08.00 – 17.00 on +31 (0)45 526 24 92 It is literally a separate place. The bond of the men and Admittedly, the language and the cultural ‘peculiarities’ or send us an email to [email protected]. Would you rather visit us? women who work on the base is volatile by definition. continue to be obstacles occasionally. But those obstacles This is possible Monday to Wednesday from 08.00 - 12.30 and Most of them stay here for a short time only, a couple of only play a subordinate part. The multi-cultural history 13.30 - 16.30. Hopefully, we will see you soon! years at the most. To them, Brunssum is no more than of Brunssum and the multi-national history of NATO a stop-over in an internationally oriented career. That show that one may grow out of many. That diversity is can easily cause the feeling that JFC Headquarters is an not a threat, but precisely a strength. A strength which isolated community within Brunssum. for me, in my childhood, was symbolised by those big American cars. They inspired, they stood for something. I would like to raze that barrier, if it exists at all, on both For progress. For a belief in a better world. I longed for sides. ‘Isolated communities’ are not in the genes of the unknown, for making discoveries. Don’t we all? Brunssum and neither are they, I think, in the genes of the JFC community. Our orientation is widely varied, This is what it is all about: worldly and borderless. People from many different We are all passers-by. You leave tomorrow; I leave the day countries live and work here under the flag of NATO. after tomorrow. But it is not about us, individuals. It is Under the flag of Brunssum, I establish with some pride, about the greater story. The story of our community, the that is not different. Brunssum was born in the twentieth values which we share in this community and the way in Meeùs NATO Brunssum century from a melting pot of cultures. The motives of which we continue to make our dreams come true. JFC Building H-603 (next to the B&S shop) the immigrants who come to Brunssum from all corners Headquarters and Brunssum are separated in many fields JFC HQ Brunssum of the world were economic motives: they came here to in practical matters.